Despite the pouring rain (,
The 1st Penguin, a café located in Anam-dong / near Korea University, )/ is packed with customers / on a Tuesday afternoon.//

packed
[pӕkt]: (특히 사람들이)꽉 들어찬

Ex>
The restaurant was packed.

Most of them (
, who appear to be college students, ) / are
sitting alone.// In addition to the word “Achievement”
( painted in big black letters and underlined
twice in bold red, )/print-outs and memos of wise sayings and columns/ are posted / all over
the walls / on every side.//

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Google Inc., the operator of the world's largest search engine, has withdrawn its China-based operations and has begun redirecting visitors to Hong Kong, according to the search engine's Web site early Tuesday.

Yonhap News reported that users who type in www.google.com.cn or www.google.cn in the search box of a Web browser will automatically be transferred to www.google.com.hk, Google's Hong Kong-based service.

In January, Google announced that it was considering withdrawing from China, the world's largest market in terms of the number of Internet users, citing cyber attacks on its e-mail service and strict censorship regulations in China.

The shipyard won an order to build two bulk carriers from Turkey's
Densa AS, and another order to build three bulk carriers for a local
shipping firm. Its Chinese unit won a deal to build four bulk carriers
from a Chinese firm, STX Offshore said.

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The Cambodian government has imposed a provisional ban on international
marriages with Koreans, citing fears of human trafficking, an official
at the Korean embassy in Cambodia said Friday, according to Yonhap news
agency.

"The Cambodian government has informed the Korean embassy in Cambodia
early this month that it will suspend receiving applications for
international marriage between Cambodians and Koreans," the official
told Yonhap News Agency by phone. "The government again confirmed this
in a formal document sent to the embassy on March 5."

suspend : (공식적으로) 중단하다
receive applications : 신청을 접수하다

The restriction pertains only to Korea because nearly 60 percent of
international marriages in Cambodia involve Korean nationals, and most
of them are arranged through brokers, the official said.

Cambodia has banned marriage brokerage since 2008, allowing only "love
matches." Despite the ban, the number of Cambodian women marrying
Korean men more than doubled from 551 in 2008 to 1,372 last year.

The latest measure came amid news reports in the Southeast Asian nation
that a clampdown on marriage brokers in Vietnam has made neighboring
Cambodia the new destination for Korean men seeking to "buy" wives.
They denounced the practice of men choosing mainly poor women as wives,
calling it "human trafficking."

The Financial Supervisory Service held a monthly disciplinary
board meeting and decided to give KEB an "institutional warning,"
holding the bank accountable for lax regulation of overseas branches,
the FSS officials said.

In January, KEB's two Japanese branches in Osaka and Tokyo
received a three-month ban on deposits, lending and remittance
operations by the local regulator Financial Service Agency, which
concluded the Korean units issued bank balance statements in violation
of rules governing illegal money laundering in 2007.

ban on : ~에 대한 금지(법, 명령)

deposit : (은행) 예금

remittance : 송금

regulator : 단속기관

financial service : 금융정보서비스기관

Korean units : 한국군

issue : 발표하다

statement : 진술, 서술

violation : 위반

governing : 통치하는(지배하는), 운영하는(관리하는)

money laundering : 돈 세탁

"Having received the heavy penalty, the Korea Exchange Bank
will face disadvantages when setting up new foreign branches," one
official said.

heavy penalty : 중징계

face disadvantages : 불이익을 당하다

An institutional warning limits KEB's entry or investment
into other financial sectors. The FSS decision needs final approval to
take effect.

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Korean President Lee Myung-bak has named Kim Choong-soo, ambassador to
the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), as
the country's new governor of the Bank of Korea (BOK), Lee's office
announced Tuesday, according to Yonhap News.

Kim has "a broad range of expertise and experience on the
Korean economy, as he worked in both academic circles and the
government, and also has international experience and insight as the
ambassador to the OECD," presidential office spokesman Park Sun-kyoo
said in the announcement.

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The spread of the H1N1 virus in Korea has been slowing sharply in recent
weeks, with fewer infections being reported, the nation's health
authorities said Tuesday and Yonhap News reported.

fewer : ~ 보다 소수의(적은)

infection : 감염
health autoorities : 보건 당국

According to the Ministry for Health, Welfare and Family Affairs, the
number of people showing flu-like symptoms per 1,000 outpatients fell to
2.8 during the 10th week of this year from 3.3 the previous week. The
10th week refers to the period from Feb. 28 to March 6.

The rate stood at 9.69 during the first week of this year but has been
falling steadily ever since, indicating that the infection rate of the
highly contagious disease is subsiding. The ministry expects the rate
will fall below 2.6 in the following week, a benchmark level that
determines the government's move to issue or withdraw a flu watch.

"A faster-than-expected economic recovery has eased concerns over the
potential asset quality deterioration of the Korean banks, where both
household and corporate leverage is high," S&P said in a statement.

"Although the recovery was largely driven by government spending and
aided by favorable foreign currency exchange rate movements in 2009, we
believe the Korean economy should post healthy yearly growth of about
4.1 percent in 2010 and 2011, mitigating private sector leverage risks
to a certain extent."

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The suspect in the rape and murder of a teenage girl, who was arrested
in Busan on Wednesday, is denying all charges against him, police said
yesterday.

murder : 살인
arrest : 체포하다
against : ~에게 불리한

Kim Gil-tae, 33, repeated denials of his charges though his DNA was
found in the victim's body, said Kim Young-sik, deputy head of the
Busan Metropolitan Police Agency.

victim : 피해자
deputy : 대리인
Metropolitan : 대도시의
Agency : 정부기관

He was suspected of kidnapping, raping and murdering 13-year-old Lee
Yu-ri, who was found dead on Saturday inside a rooftop water tank just
100 meters away from her house after disappearing on Feb. 24.

kidnap : 납치하다, 유괴하다
rooftop : 옥상

She had been suffocated to death after being raped, said police officials.

be suffocated to death : 질식해서 죽다.

Kim, however, claimed that he had never seen Lee and that he only ran
in fear of being caught for his past offenses, according to officials.